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- # EIGHTH EDITION, 1635.
## Overview
This entity is a section, titled "EIGHTH EDITION, 1635.", extracted from a larger text. It is part of Chapter III and was extracted from the file "pdf-01KG6Q7Q25RHMFT3SJXPV18VFF.txt" within the collection "PDF Workflow Main Test 2026-01-30T00:26:53". This section discusses a rare frontispiece found in some copies of an edition of Shakespeare's works.
## Context
The section is situated within Chapter III, which focuses on the textual history and variations of Shakespeare's works. It follows a discussion of the 1655 edition and precedes a description of the British Museum's copy of an edition. The text suggests that the frontispiece is a significant feature, contributing to the volume's value and interest.
## Contents
The text highlights the rarity of the frontispiece, describing it as the third early engraved portrait of Shakespeare. It mentions that this particular portrait, by Faithorne, is rarely encountered. The section notes that while many copies of the 1655 edition exist without the title page, very few include the frontispiece. It further specifies that only two copies with the frontispiece are known in Great Britain and four in America. The section is titled "WITH THE FRONTISPIECE."
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- EIGHTH EDITION, 1635.
The frontispiece is met with in very few copies, and lends the volume its main value and interest. It supplies the third engraved portrait of Shakespeare in point of time, that by Droeshout of the First Folio of 1623 being the first, and the second being the engraving by William Marshall before Shakespeare’s Poems of 1640. Of the three early engraved portraits of Shakespeare, this by Faithorne is most rarely met with. Halliwell[-Phillipps], writing before 1856, stated that he had seen thirty copies of the 1655 edition of Lucrece without the title-page and only one with it. Only two copies of the volume with the frontispiece seem accessible in Great Britain, while four seem to be in America.
WITH THE FRONTISPIECE.
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- EIGHTH EDITION, 1635.